A total solar eclipse streaked across the United States Monday, Aug. 21. In its 70-mile-wide path, people saw the sun disappear behind the moon, turning daylight into darkness, with trails of light streaming through the sky around the silhouette of the moon.

Millions of people witnessed the historic spectacle as the eclipse traveled a path from Oregon to South Carolina. Chabad centers along its route hosted informative and inspirational programs to provide a Jewish perspective on the event.

Streamers of light are often visible around the silhouette of the moon during a solar eclipse, which will take place next on Monday, Aug. 21.From space, the moon’s shadow during a solar eclipse appears as a dark spot moving across Earth. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)Chabad of South Carolina in Columbia is planning to mail solar eclipse kits to community members in advance of the natural phenomenon. In it will be special viewing glasses like these. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

I’m always obsessed with something related to the Royals. I had no idea from where this idea came from. Probably, it came from children stories books which I read when I was little which always telling stories about happy ending stories, where the prince and princes living happily ever after eventually. The stories were vary, from land of Europe such as the stories of Snow White and Prince Florian in Snow Whites and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Prince ‘Charming’ Henry, Prince Adam in Beauty and the Beast. From the Middle East, I admired Princes Jasmine and Aladdin. And there was Mulan from China. Oh, I should mention Indonesian radio drama that I always listened during in my childhood, Saur Sepuh, which was telling stories of Madangkara Kingdom with Brama Kumbara as its king. Yeah, I was living in fairy tales. [ ]